There is something about him and his videos ( I have watched very few) that they seem they were recorded 20 or 25 years ago! But there is that beautiful serenity to them... love them!
Thank you, both Tim and your team. This video holds a bit of a special place in my heart, as it was made after my request. I happen to have a mercury maze of my own, a bit different than the one here though as it's completely circular and the mercury bead was measured out in such a way to be able to solve it without ever breaking the mercury bead. Unfortunately mine is extremely weathered since it sat lost in our yard for about 7 years after Hurricane Katrina, but it's still in one piece essentially and still works fine. I had contacted them hoping to donate my toy to their collection, which was briefly discussed, but I gather that the shipping charges overseas wouldn't necessarily be worth it given the collection he already has seen here today. No worries by me, I just figured perhaps my toy should go to some sort of museum somewhere, not like you run across a mercury maze that survived Katrina plus spent 7 years lost in the weather ya know. Anyways, on a side note, I had another miniature maze similar to the ones presented around 9:20, which I picked up at an antique car festival, Cruisin' The Coast, but it was more or less a flat pocket style of 3D maze, with only like 3 'layers' to the sides. Most of the maze action was on the top and bottom ya know, but still the side edge maze portions made it that much more tricky. But the irony of the thing was that it was sponsored by our local mental hospital, with their BIG black logo printed right over the maze on one side. So the mental ward that sponsored it didn't stop for even a second to think that blocking vision of large parts of the maze wouldn't itself drive people crazy huh? 😂 Regardless, thanks again for everything you do, and have a wonderful holiday season and new year!
His name is Tim Rowett, and he's been on TV before, apparently a long time ago though. From his Wikipedia article: "Grand Illusions was started as an online community for science and games in 1996. It was developed by Hendrik Ball and George Auckland (then BBC producers) who were exploring the role of the media and the World Wide Web during the late 90s." "Rowett appeared on the television science programme Take Nobody’s Word For It in 1989 alongside Carol Vorderman, demonstrating optical illusions." But back to my own thoughts, yes I totally agree, Tim should be on TV today!
I had a maze toy that i adored as a child. I got it sometime in the 90's. It was a clear acrylic rectangle filled with water and little maze square sections. You know those sliding tile number puzzles where you have to shift the tiles around till you get everything in numerical order? It was a bit like that. You had to tilt and wiggle the toy while these tiles slid around in the container of water and i remember being mesmerized at clearing a section and watching a tile slowly fall into place. Anyway i forget if you had a ball bearing to move through the maze or if you were just supposed to move the little air bubble through the maze but i played with that thing constantly. Shifting the tiles around to make a new maze, moving the bubble around the maze and watching it split apart and come back together. I wish I had it still.
As much as Tim was struggling with the mazes (they're clearly not his specialty!) He was charming and entertaining throughout! Tim is such a charming gentleman, and I've never heard a posher accent in my life. I would have adored having Tim as an Uncle or Grandfather in youth! Sadly I live in the states so he wouldn't have been able to come by very often but that would have made his visits extra special!
I had one of those mercury mazes as a kid. I don't think I ever solved it properly, I liked to shake it really hard so the mercury broke into a bunch of tiny droplets, then manipulate it to rebuild them into one large one.
Me: "Take the clear part off and show us the pattern the rolling pin makes!" I totally didn't get the title/pun until I saw everything on the table. >_>
I used to own that exact same round mercury maze. Shame you can't get them anymore. You can fix the scuffed/scratched plastic with some watch crystal polisher like "Polywatch"
I had the mercury one when I was a kid. If you shake it real hard the mercury ball will bust into hundreds of small pieces that you can entertain yourself forming them into one piece again. Of course I eventually broke it open to play with the mercury.
I had a toy called "Miller's Maze" when I was a kid. It was a completely clear acrylic cube divided up into 125 chambers (5×5×5). You put in a ball-bearing through a hole on top, then had to navigate the ball through the chambers to find the correct path to an exit hole. Wish I still had it, I had many hours of fun with it and solved it several times.
Metallic mercury, especially in that amount, isn't "deadly" at all. At most, it could let off some vapours that could in theory slightly harm the development of small babies' brains. The highly toxic one is "organic" mercury (a family of carbon compounds containing mercury).
@@RFC-3514 It's not deadly, but it is toxic. Elemental mercury used to be used in felting hats and the 'Mad Hatter's would have been quite a common malady.
@@cheyannei5983 - Literally _everything_ is toxic, even water. It's just a matter of dosage. You can handle metallic mercury just fine; absorption through the skin is almost non-existent. You can even eat it; absorption through the digestive tract is also minimal. It's not even significantly toxic if you inject it directly into your bloodstream (although it will block blood flow, so don't do that). The only relevant source of toxicity would be vapours, but at ambient temperature and for short periods, those would be irrelevant for an adult. Hatters worked with heated mercuric nitrate (not metallic mercury), every day, for several hours a day, over decades. It added up. But quite slowly.
@@RFC-3514 No, it's not a matter of dosage, there's no lower limit of mercury vapor exposure that does not cause harm, just low enough that the body can fix it.
you might like to check out Doug Factory puzzles, they have both a blind cube, where the maze is not only on the cube's surface, but inside the cube and a series of adventure themed mazes where part of the maze is underneath where you can't see it really cool stuff from France
It's so nice that DC's Toyman decided to do a series of videos reviewing toys in his later years...... That ball maze with the blinking light would give me a headache to do.....
Fun fact: Tim often mentions toys he got from Nuremberg. That's presumably because Nuremberg hosts the largest annual trade fair for toys. I assume Tim has visited it quite a few times to meet other collectors and to look for new toys for his collection!
I can just see someone with that maze given as a birthday present with money in it but they can't unlock it and they get increasingly frustrated until they're just like... "Okay, I want my money, get me a hammer!" 🤣
With complicated toys like these I kinda wish they would get a second camera to show Tim's various facial expression. Though, an upgrade like that would make the older videos way more dated
I'd watch a video of just Tim trying to put that yellow maze lid on, good asmr material lol Also I have a coin bank that's shaped like a cube that also happens to be a ball bearing maze. You have to go through all 6 faces of the cube before arriving at the end, which is a switch which forces the ball bearing through to the start again, pressing a button in the process that pops the coin bank open.
That last maze is almost the exact same maze as the standard Perplexus, just with some stuff removed so it can be flattened. Perhaps it’s an earlier iteration?
Hallo Tim. Can you please help me with a question? There is a hidden message trick called "Red-Reveal". To see a secret message in a picture, you look through some red gel. I am going mad trying to find the inventor. Or even some early description of tge phenomenon. It must date from the 19th Century as coloured lights and photography used these tinted films. You must have old examples. What can you tell us about Red Secret Messages?
Man I feel dumb. I'm confused as to how that puzzle has almost seven hundred thousand combinations. I get the 4 to the power of 6 but what am I missing after that? 6 pieces, 4 orientations (or states) so 4096 possibilities for that part. But after that I'm not sure. 6 sides to a cube with 6 pieces, so you would think 6 to the power of 6, 46656 combinations on that part.
Grab one piece... you have 6 potential faces of the cube to put that face in, and for each one of those, you have 4 orientations, so for the first piece you have 6*4 possibilities. For the next piece, you will have 5 faces of the cube left, and again 4 orientations, so 5*4 possibilities. You can follow the same pattern to come up to the following formula: (6*4) * (5*4) * (4*4) * (3*4) * (2*4) * (1*4) = 6! * 4^6 = 2949120 combinations! Now, many of these combinations are going to end up representing the same puzzle. At the very least, each combination appears six times, since we do not want to consider rotations of the same cube as different puzzles. This brings us down to 491520 combinations, which is somehow lower than the advertised number.
@@Insipidont Wow man I appreciate it. I took a class in statistics once but I forgot how to do all that stuff. I'm going to go back look over that stuff comeback here and check it out again. But I can't thank you enough for this.
I forgot about this channel for some years. And it's still up. This is a good day to know that.
I discovered Tim during lockdown.
There is something about him and his videos ( I have watched very few) that they seem they were recorded 20 or 25 years ago! But there is that beautiful serenity to them... love them!
Water of the nile
Tim and his toy collection should be a national treasure.
I imagine Tim lives inside a huge warehouse full of shelves for his collection
He has them all in his apartment :) very cute
Guess whats behind the black curtains 🤣 i like to think about the mega warehous in Indiana Jones films yknow ?💀
Nah, he clearly lives next door to Santa and his elves.
It's actually a generic apartment. Lol
@@tqft how does he fit it all in an apartment
A-maze-ing as always Tim.
You beat me to it LOL
@@atacstringer8573....no the title beat you both to it. UA-cam comments are so insipid
It's always lovely to see you, Tim
Thank you, both Tim and your team. This video holds a bit of a special place in my heart, as it was made after my request.
I happen to have a mercury maze of my own, a bit different than the one here though as it's completely circular and the mercury bead was measured out in such a way to be able to solve it without ever breaking the mercury bead.
Unfortunately mine is extremely weathered since it sat lost in our yard for about 7 years after Hurricane Katrina, but it's still in one piece essentially and still works fine.
I had contacted them hoping to donate my toy to their collection, which was briefly discussed, but I gather that the shipping charges overseas wouldn't necessarily be worth it given the collection he already has seen here today.
No worries by me, I just figured perhaps my toy should go to some sort of museum somewhere, not like you run across a mercury maze that survived Katrina plus spent 7 years lost in the weather ya know.
Anyways, on a side note, I had another miniature maze similar to the ones presented around 9:20, which I picked up at an antique car festival, Cruisin' The Coast, but it was more or less a flat pocket style of 3D maze, with only like 3 'layers' to the sides. Most of the maze action was on the top and bottom ya know, but still the side edge maze portions made it that much more tricky.
But the irony of the thing was that it was sponsored by our local mental hospital, with their BIG black logo printed right over the maze on one side. So the mental ward that sponsored it didn't stop for even a second to think that blocking vision of large parts of the maze wouldn't itself drive people crazy huh? 😂
Regardless, thanks again for everything you do, and have a wonderful holiday season and new year!
Thanks for the heads up and the photo Brian. It inspired Tim to go and find all the mazes in his collection!
This should be telecasted as a show in TV🔥🔥🔥
His name is Tim Rowett, and he's been on TV before, apparently a long time ago though.
From his Wikipedia article:
"Grand Illusions was started as an online community for science and games in 1996. It was developed by Hendrik Ball and George Auckland (then BBC producers) who were exploring the role of the media and the World Wide Web during the late 90s."
"Rowett appeared on the television science programme Take Nobody’s Word For It in 1989 alongside Carol Vorderman, demonstrating optical illusions."
But back to my own thoughts, yes I totally agree, Tim should be on TV today!
I had a maze toy that i adored as a child. I got it sometime in the 90's. It was a clear acrylic rectangle filled with water and little maze square sections.
You know those sliding tile number puzzles where you have to shift the tiles around till you get everything in numerical order? It was a bit like that.
You had to tilt and wiggle the toy while these tiles slid around in the container of water and i remember being mesmerized at clearing a section and watching a tile slowly fall into place. Anyway i forget if you had a ball bearing to move through the maze or if you were just supposed to move the little air bubble through the maze but i played with that thing constantly. Shifting the tiles around to make a new maze, moving the bubble around the maze and watching it split apart and come back together. I wish I had it still.
that sounds like a nice toy
That Amaze In Ball has been around years! I remember wanting one when I was a kid and I'm now nearly 30!
As much as Tim was struggling with the mazes (they're clearly not his specialty!) He was charming and entertaining throughout! Tim is such a charming gentleman, and I've never heard a posher accent in my life. I would have adored having Tim as an Uncle or Grandfather in youth! Sadly I live in the states so he wouldn't have been able to come by very often but that would have made his visits extra special!
Love seeing your collections, thank you!
This is hands down my favourite video on this channel. I love mazes! 😊
I had one of those mercury mazes as a kid. I don't think I ever solved it properly, I liked to shake it really hard so the mercury broke into a bunch of tiny droplets, then manipulate it to rebuild them into one large one.
That was smart though.
that was kinda risky because if the casing broke you’d die possibly
Me: "Take the clear part off and show us the pattern the rolling pin makes!"
I totally didn't get the title/pun until I saw everything on the table. >_>
The amazing Tim! I love the channel. It’s wholesome and warm.
Wow Tim. There's so many cool doodads and whizbangs I need to learn about
I used to own that exact same round mercury maze. Shame you can't get them anymore. You can fix the scuffed/scratched plastic with some watch crystal polisher like "Polywatch"
The shpere with the red, blinking dot: "I am sorry, Tim. I can not allow you to solve the my maze."
Tim could talk about his bathroom tap and it'd be amazing.
I had the mercury one when I was a kid. If you shake it real hard the mercury ball will bust into hundreds of small pieces that you can entertain yourself forming them into one piece again.
Of course I eventually broke it open to play with the mercury.
I love the mercury mazes! I have the exact same one and recently rediscovered the one from my childhood.
Protect this man at all cost
I cannot believe this: I have one "mercury blob maze" exactly like the one shown at 1:01
I had a toy called "Miller's Maze" when I was a kid. It was a completely clear acrylic cube divided up into 125 chambers (5×5×5). You put in a ball-bearing through a hole on top, then had to navigate the ball through the chambers to find the correct path to an exit hole.
Wish I still had it, I had many hours of fun with it and solved it several times.
Fantastic collection. Merry Christmas to you all :)
He is one of the few adults I actually enjoy.
it really took me 4 minutes to get the pun in the title
we love you tim :D
The mercury maze was so cool! I wonder if there's a modern day less deadly version of that toy because it's so creative!
probably using water
Metallic mercury, especially in that amount, isn't "deadly" at all. At most, it could let off some vapours that could in theory slightly harm the development of small babies' brains.
The highly toxic one is "organic" mercury (a family of carbon compounds containing mercury).
@@RFC-3514 It's not deadly, but it is toxic. Elemental mercury used to be used in felting hats and the 'Mad Hatter's would have been quite a common malady.
@@cheyannei5983 - Literally _everything_ is toxic, even water. It's just a matter of dosage.
You can handle metallic mercury just fine; absorption through the skin is almost non-existent. You can even eat it; absorption through the digestive tract is also minimal. It's not even significantly toxic if you inject it directly into your bloodstream (although it will block blood flow, so don't do that). The only relevant source of toxicity would be vapours, but at ambient temperature and for short periods, those would be irrelevant for an adult.
Hatters worked with heated mercuric nitrate (not metallic mercury), every day, for several hours a day, over decades. It added up. But quite slowly.
@@RFC-3514 No, it's not a matter of dosage, there's no lower limit of mercury vapor exposure that does not cause harm, just low enough that the body can fix it.
I had that red maze cube back in the day. I saw one recently that was the deathstar from Star Wars, that looked quite good
Keep well Uncle Tim.
East coast Australia. x
you might like to check out Doug Factory puzzles, they have both a blind cube, where the maze is not only on the cube's surface, but inside the cube
and a series of adventure themed mazes where part of the maze is underneath where you can't see it
really cool stuff from France
I love your videos Tim, they are amazing
It's so nice that DC's Toyman decided to do a series of videos reviewing toys in his later years......
That ball maze with the blinking light would give me a headache to do.....
i had one of those mercury mazes as a kid.
I want my kids to grow up with your videos Tim, love your videos!
Anyone intrigued by the last puzzle needs to get a Perplexus. They are the spherical puzzles like that one, and very complicated and fun.
Oh my god that intro is adorable
Every time he touches the surface over the mercury, I imagine this will be his last video
Tim should have a museum with all these toys.
I love that yellow box maze!
mercury maze and Oscar's cube are very interesting
My favorite ASMR channel
2:07 there was a toy called jumpin beanz that were renamed to mighty beanz in the early 2000's that moved like that.
I had a bunch
Those are so simple yet looks so fun
Quite amazing indeed
Tim feels like my grandpa. Basically a time machine. But, tim is a youtuber and my grandpa watches youtube
Fun fact: Tim often mentions toys he got from Nuremberg. That's presumably because Nuremberg hosts the largest annual trade fair for toys. I assume Tim has visited it quite a few times to meet other collectors and to look for new toys for his collection!
There are some really cool 3d printed mazes and puzzles people are making.
Banger maze video Tim
Tim is the most a-maze-ing blokde on the internet!
What a lovely idea.
I can just see someone with that maze given as a birthday present with money in it but they can't unlock it and they get increasingly frustrated until they're just like... "Okay, I want my money, get me a hammer!" 🤣
With complicated toys like these I kinda wish they would get a second camera to show Tim's various facial expression. Though, an upgrade like that would make the older videos way more dated
I think it would be really interesting for a cylindrical maze to have gaps instead of walls so it would be almost impossibly hard
I'm guessing the best way to do the rolling pin maze is on your back with arms up so the ball don't roll away.
That's what I thought.
@@johnnypoo3166 He's seems like a smart bloke, I'm sure he'll figure it out.
Reminds me of the Tomy obstacle course pocket maze!
I'd watch a video of just Tim trying to put that yellow maze lid on, good asmr material lol
Also I have a coin bank that's shaped like a cube that also happens to be a ball bearing maze. You have to go through all 6 faces of the cube before arriving at the end, which is a switch which forces the ball bearing through to the start again, pressing a button in the process that pops the coin bank open.
I also have that bank. Transparent plastic.
💚🐇🐴💚
Просто восхитительно 🤩 !!!
God bless Tim !
That last maze is almost the exact same maze as the standard Perplexus, just with some stuff removed so it can be flattened. Perhaps it’s an earlier iteration?
Extraordinary!
I'd love to try that yellow one next time you're in London.
I love you tim!!!!
Great vid as always pops
really cool, thank you.
my man loves bits and baubles
699,841 puzzles Tim, how to slide the lid on is the last 1.
Bruh💀
Gorgeous video sir
There is a mistake in the title of the video, it should be "That amazing Tim ! "
The intro fills me with dread and angst.
Love ya tim!
11:35 What it feels like to fight my inner demons. Mundane
Love the new intro Tim great work
Some UA-cam maker should absolutely create a mercury blob maze. If they ever do, someone let me know?
You should see some modern perplexes ball bearing puzzles they’re pretty neat
Oskar's cube has been around since 1994.. i bought it when i was in the hospital, i needed a challenge
absolutely great video, thank you
In the 1970s the science teacher let us hold Mercury in our hands.
Mind blown 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Am OG tim i love your vids
Hallo Tim. Can you please help me with a question? There is a hidden message trick called "Red-Reveal". To see a secret message in a picture, you look through some red gel. I am going mad trying to find the inventor. Or even some early description of tge phenomenon. It must date from the 19th Century as coloured lights and photography used these tinted films. You must have old examples. What can you tell us about Red Secret Messages?
I sent away for a maze puzzle, I received a packet of corn flakes
Están chidos los laberintos.
I would buy that first maze
这些迷宫类玩具非常好，锻炼脑力，挺好的👍
The Perplexus should be on this list!
Oscar Vandeventer is a mathamagician
They are like mighty beanz. I had one then buried it in mash potatos then it got thrown away with lunch when i forgot it there.
That's amazing, Tim!
"A lovely, quivery bit of, um... mercury, which was then, unfortunately, banned, because it's just poisonous, so-" -Tim
Man I feel dumb. I'm confused as to how that puzzle has almost seven hundred thousand combinations. I get the 4 to the power of 6 but what am I missing after that? 6 pieces, 4 orientations (or states) so 4096 possibilities for that part. But after that I'm not sure. 6 sides to a cube with 6 pieces, so you would think 6 to the power of 6, 46656 combinations on that part.
Grab one piece... you have 6 potential faces of the cube to put that face in, and for each one of those, you have 4 orientations, so for the first piece you have 6*4 possibilities. For the next piece, you will have 5 faces of the cube left, and again 4 orientations, so 5*4 possibilities. You can follow the same pattern to come up to the following formula: (6*4) * (5*4) * (4*4) * (3*4) * (2*4) * (1*4) = 6! * 4^6 = 2949120 combinations!
Now, many of these combinations are going to end up representing the same puzzle. At the very least, each combination appears six times, since we do not want to consider rotations of the same cube as different puzzles. This brings us down to 491520 combinations, which is somehow lower than the advertised number.
@@Insipidont Wow man I appreciate it. I took a class in statistics once but I forgot how to do all that stuff. I'm going to go back look over that stuff comeback here and check it out again. But I can't thank you enough for this.
happy turkey day tim
We had the mercury one
The 🖊 one would be my favorite' quite clever.
Imagine a temperature based maze
I´m guesing that Tim is a big fan of Borges.
Tim that is truly A "maze" ing !!
How old are you sir ?
Might want to keep the mercury maze in a container with some sulphur in, incase it ever leaked
Metallic mercury is fine. There's far more toxic stuff in the air of any city.
The first labyrinth I would always keep in an airtight fume hood. 😥☠